Netowrk Engineer

Brian Goeke

Summary

Solutions-oriented Senior Wintel Network & Systems Engineer with 15 years of experience committed to providing elegant high-level solutions that drive business and provide outstanding cost efficiency. Seeking a leadership position with a cutting-edge company developing new and innovative solutions to provide strategic direction to engineering teams and clients to develop and execute value-added technical solutions that will effect true change in the world.

Career Overview

Over 15 years of experience in both the public and private sector as a Network Engineer and Systems Administrator, and possessing more than 10 years of experience operating and conducting technical analysis and assessments of digital communications and computer system networks to identify and harden weaknesses.

More than 10 years of experience operating successful IT consulting firm using cutting edge methodologies and technologies to create value-added solutions to satisfy a wide array client requirements.

Significant and highly technical expertise in configuration management, end-user support, network administration and security, implementing software upgrades and patches on resource servers and workstations, and the installation, configuration control, wiring, and troubleshooting of Windows workstations and Windows servers.

Monitoring and maintenance of complex network systems using enterprise-level switches and routers, and the configuration of network components, ports, and protocols. Extensive experience with network security policies and procedures. Skill Highlights

Expert with Windows Server 2000, 2003,

2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016.

Active Directory.

Exchange 5, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2013.

Virtualization: Hyper-V, VMWare vShpere,

ESXi, VirtualBox, Parallels, Citrix XenApp

SAN systems: HP Storageworks, EMC, & Dell

Compellent, NetApp.

Load balanced Terminal Servers / Remote

Desktop Services Farms, Using RDP and

Citrix.

Firewall management: Sonicwall, Cisco,

Juniper, Fortinet, Watchguard, Barracuda.

Disaster Recovery and Ransomware

Various network backup & cloning systems,

Robotic Tape, D2D & Cloud: ArcServe, Backup

Exec, Acronis, Legato Networker, Barracuda,

Carbonite, Intronis, Clonezilla

Dell, Cisco, & HP Layer-3 Switches.

Installing, configuring, administering

numerous Server brands, including but not

limited to Dell, HP, Lenovo.

AV Management Protection: Symantec

Endpoint Protection, Mcafee, Avast,

Kaspersky

Wireless technologies: Cisco/Meraki,

Xirrus/Riverbed, HP/Aruba.

501 Maple Ave., Trenton, NJ 08618 - 917-***-**** (C) - ******@*****.*** January 2009 to Current

August 2004 to December 2008

August 2003 to August 2004

Experience

My IT Today LLC

Senior Network & Systems Engineer

Manhattan, NY

Owner of a successful IT consulting firm that services serves clients located throughout tri-state area. Responsible for all new business development, maintaining current client relationships, and oversight of large projects.

Responsible for overseeing a team of support engineers to ensure proper delegation and resolution of any network/systems issues in a prompt and timely manner for company clients. Served as operating system expert, providing technical support for entire organizations. Ensured the immediate resolution of issues so that all project deliverables were met key milestones as defined by stakeholders.

Conducted individual training sessions for employees in Microsoft Office, Windows Server, and Amazon Web Services.

Traveled to client sites and answered questions via phone and email so that issues were remedied in a timely manner.

Created, oversaw, and updated policies, information, standards, and guidelines on a regular basis. Provided customers with advice on hardware performance and relevant applications. Worked with clients to analyze computing and network needs and installed appropriate solutions within each organization's budget.

Designed complex interfaces to support third party systems. Reviewed, analyzed, and recommended software solutions that would be an ideal fit for project specifications.

Collaborated with support team to assist client stakeholders with emergent technical issues and develop effective solutions.

Streamlined acquisition of reporting requirements and specifications to disseminate across multiple business lines and IT support teams.

Nvision Technologies Consulting

Sr. Network Engineer

Manhattan, NY

Head network/systems engineer that is responsible for remote and on-site daily support and maintenance of 50+ servers and 1000+ Workstations at 20+ client sites located throughout New York and New Jersey for both IT managers and End-Users at each of the client sites as needed. Responsible for design, development, implementation and monitoring of day-to-day computer related business processes for all clients.

Using the least amount of user intervention and with the most amount of efficiency. Responsible for delegation and resolution of trouble tickets in a prompt and timely manner for company clients covering a broad array of Network Systems and technologies. New Jersey Department of Transportation

Network Administrator Level 1

Ewing, NJ

Leveraged in-depth understanding of end-to-end customer experience to identify pain points and latent customer needs.

Led the design and development of software upgrades and the deployment of new services and 2008

products.

Managed the 4-person local IT team, allocating resources to ongoing projects and enforcing deadlines.

Maintained in-depth knowledge of distribution platform guidelines and capabilities to guide internal development.

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

CompTIA A+ - I-Net+- Network+- Security+

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security (MCSA) 2000/2003/2008 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 2000/2003/2008 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security (MCSE+S) 2000/2003/2008 Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) Novell Certified Network Administrator (CNA)

Education

Thomas Edison State College

Associate of Science: Computer Science

Trenton, NJ

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